How to maintain relative position of two surfaces?

[Hongze Zhao]

Hi Jasper,

Thanks for reply.

Here is my use case.

Suppose we have a client called "father", who has a larger surface called
"father surface" and a client called "child", whose smaller surface is
"child surface". The child surface should be displayed in a given relative
position above father surface and maintain their relative position. When I
move father surface, the child surface will be moved together. But the
child surface cannot be moved. Thus the child surface will looks like a
part of father surface. I just need it works in the simplest scenario. I
assume the two surfaces is in the same workspace, both surfaces cannot be
resized, maximized or fullscreened. The two clients and compositor should
work together to achieve this goal.

I know this is a weird use case. I am just wondering if there is some
natural or easy way to implement this functionality. Or I have to do a lot
of modifications.

Thanks,
Hongze


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre at mecheye.net>
wrote:

> The only way to position surfaces relatively one to another is by using a
> subsurface. But I imagine this isn't exactly what you want.
>
> Can you explain a bit more about your use case? What happens if I put one
> surface on a different workspace from the others? Should the two be stacked
> independently (e.g. your window A, my terminal, your window B)? What
> happens when I resize the surfaces? Or maximize or fullscreen them?
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Hongze Zhao <zhaohongze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am doing some experiments on weston compositor. I am wondering if
>> someone could give me some hints about how to maintain relative position of
>> two surfaces.
>>
>> Suppose I have two wayland clients. After I grab and move the surface of
>> one client, I would like to maintain the relative positions of the the
>> surfaces from two clients. Thus I have to automatically update the position
>> of the other surface.
>>
>> I feel that surface position is stored in an instance of weston_view,
>> which is mainly maintained by desktop-shell. So I am not sure if there is
>> some easy way to achieve my goal by modifying desktop-shell.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hongze
>>
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>
>
> --
>   Jasper
>



-- 
Hongze Zhao
Department of Computer Science
Duke University
Email: zhaohongze at gmail.com
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